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Writing - Heinemann Curriculum

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Unit 1 - Narrative Writing

 

 

Jack Gantos - Neighborhood Map

 

Image result for jack gantos neighborhood map

 

 

 

Everything Will Be OK - James Howe - Mentor Text

 

https://www.sps186.org/downloads/basic/551024/EverythingOK.pdf - Text

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCEIzB4FewU - Read Aloud with Text

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMzQwhsaH8&t=9 - Read Aloud with Text

 

http://fosterberger.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/7/13575647/session_6_mentor_text.pdf - Look Up and Watch the Show

 

http://smartwritinghandbook.com/resources/MT_07_FU.pdf - The Funeral - Ralph Fletcher

 

file:///H:/Fly%20Away%20Home%20-%20Eve%20Bunting.pdf - Fly Away Home - Eve Bunting

 

 

 

 

Claims in Writing

 

Topic Sentences and Signposting. Topic sentences and signposts make an essay's claims clear to a reader. Good essays contain both. ... They show the relationship of each paragraph to the essay's thesis, telegraph the point of a paragraph, and tell your reader what to expect in the paragraph that follows.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0a4AcvsziU - Writing a Claim (Chicken Foot Graphic Organizer)

 

 

RED ALERT WORDS - Avoid Run-On Sentences

 

and

and then

so

when

because

 

 

 

RED ALARM WORDS - Check for these when "something doesn't sound right."

 

Subject-Verb Agreement

Use of the Correct Pronoun - Gender, Number

Adjective

Adverb

 

 

A Strong Essay Has:

 

1. Correct Punctuation, Spelling, Syntax, Coherence, Length

2. Reread your essay to catch common mistakes - use the correct their, there, they're, correct to, two, too, correct your, you're

3. Check for Red Alert & Red  Alarm Words

4. Sentence Structure - You must have Complex, Compound, Compound-Complex Sentences 

 

 

Grade 7 - Realistic Fiction

 

 

Thirteen and a Half - Rachel Vail

https://www.sps186.org/downloads/basic/462401/G7B1_MT_ThirteenAndAHalf.pdf

 

 

file:///C:/Users/wrooney/Downloads/G7B1S17_SW_FIG17-1%20(1).pdf - Helping Ruby

 

file:///C:/Users/wrooney/Downloads/G7B1S17_SW_FIG17-2.pdf - Annabelle - Realistic Fiction Story

 

file:///C:/Users/wrooney/Downloads/G7B1S17_SW_FIG17-3.pdf - Samee - From One Friend to Another

 

 

file:///C:/Users/wrooney/Downloads/G7B1S17_SW_FIG17-4.pdf - Yasmin's Final Piece

 

file:///C:/Users/wrooney/Downloads/G7B1S17_SW_FIG17-5.pdf - Gabriel - Forever Strong

 

 

 

Thirteen and a Half

file:///home/chronos/u-316e67e97999c232bf7b48a8127d228d2c87100d/MyFiles/Downloads/G7B1_MT_ThirteenAndAHalf.pdf

 

Story Arc: Thirteen and a Half

file:///home/chronos/u-316e67e97999c232bf7b48a8127d228d2c87100d/MyFiles/Downloads/G7B1_CH_Story_Arc_ThirteenAndAHalf.pdf

 

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